Dear AuntMinnie Member,
The rise of full-field digital mammography (FFDM) is putting powerful new visualization tools in the hands of breast imagers. But how accurate are these tools in a digital imaging environment?
That's the question posed by a new article in our Women's Imaging Digital Community, in which Colorado researchers found major discrepancies in lesion size measurements on different FFDM units.
Lesion measurements differed by as much as 100% depending on the mammography mode being used -- a discrepancy that could significantly affect management of breast cancer patients. Find out why the errors are occurring and whether your system might be affected by clicking here.
In other news, mammograms may be overused in women with dementia. That story is available by clicking here or by visiting the community at women.auntminnie.com.
Cutting pediatric PET/CT dose
In other news, check out our Molecular Imaging Digital Community for a new story on Pennsylvania researchers who found that they could cut radiotracer dose by half in PET/CT studies of smaller children -- without affecting image quality.
The researchers questioned whether it was really necessary to give young children the same amount of radiopharmaceutical administered to adults for PET/CT scans. The findings dovetail with the Image Gently campaign to develop child-sized imaging protocols for nuclear medicine -- in the same fashion as the group's successful campaign in CT.
Learn more by clicking here, or visit the Molecular Imaging Digital Community at molecular.auntminnie.com.
